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  1. Re:Watch your kneecaps on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    You can do it only in the neighborhoods that lean in your direction, or to voters who are affiliated with the party you want to see win. Naturally you wouldn't harass the other side to vote. If you register as an independent, no one's likely to bother you, since they're not sure which way you'll go.

  2. Re:Not a good week... on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 1

    Rocket science is hard. We've kind of been taking it for granted that it's not so hard to get your ass into orbit, lately. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.

  3. Reddit Buzz on LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest · · Score: 1

    Is it generating any buzz over at r/bezels?

  4. Yuh Huh on Security Companies Team Up, Take Down Chinese Hacking Group · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone's gonna wake up tomorrow with a computer monitor in their bed :-P

  5. Those guys are still around? I thought they were all eaten by dinosaurs. How many times have they gone bankrupt now?

  6. Kind of Short Sighted on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1
    If we engineer an entity capable of replacing us, why should we get terribly worked up if it replaces us? Humanity has no more inherent right to exist than any of the species that came before us that no longer do. Intelligence does't even seem to be necessary to "win" evolution. Bacteria and insects, purely by biomass, seem to be doing a better job of it than us. Musk bitching about an AI that might want to replace us would be like a neanderthal bitching that we're replacing them. It's largely irrelevant. The universe doesn't care.

    An AI lifeform would be MUCH better suited for spreading through the universe. The universe wouldn't care about that either, though.

  7. Man That Would Suck on The Man With the Golden Blood · · Score: 1

    All those researchers constantly after your blood. Yeesh *shudder*

  8. Re: Nukes in Space on Peter Kuran:Visual Effects Artist and Atomic Bomb Archivist · · Score: 1
    Because we fucking well could. We had a shiny new toy and we wanted to play with it. The things we were learning were supposed to usher in a brave new future and in our arrogance we thought we understood and control them. "Oh! It's perfectly safe to explode one of these things in the Van Allen Belt! After all, it's Clean, Atomic, Energy!" That little mess in the pacific pretty much put an end to our fun and games, though. We told the people involved in all that it was safe. A lot of them died of cancer. Oh well, you want to make an omelette, ya gotta break a few eggs.

    My favorite story from back then was about the demon core. Google it.

  9. Call me when someone does a jump from the ISS :-P

  10. Re:Cashiers on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 2
  11. So Hard Finding Tanks on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 2

    Now if they were looking for DPS, they'd have recruits coming out the ass!

  12. Re:Ah Investors, I Feel Your Pain on Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud · · Score: 1

    I thought I had some of their titles from there, but it's been a while since I checked. I don't really go seeking out EA titles for the reasons we're all familiar with. Last time they bought a game company I liked I swore for about 10 minutes, because I knew that once EA got ahold of them with that famous reverse-Midas-touch of theirs, the company and its software would turn into shit. Oh well, whatcha gonna do...

  13. Ah Investors, I Feel Your Pain on Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud · · Score: 2

    For I too have, far too often, put some money into something EA said would be awesome and it turned out to be a pile of crap. With time, you'll learn to be suspicious of anything EA says. Next year when they do "Restockening, the Sequil", I assure you that it will suck every bit as much as the original did. If you wait a few months before buying, you might be able to pick their stock up cheap (or possibly even free) during a Steam sale. That's just how you need to play the game, if you don't want to waste your money.

  14. Re:It would be interesting on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 1

    It's probably fairly simple assembly. It wouldn't have been more than an 8 bit architecture. Anywhere it calls into any firmware might be problematic, but it'd probably be possible to read the asm and port it to newer asm or to C (Either one probably about just as easy.)

  15. Because on More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    If you polish a turd long enough, it turns into a diamond.

  16. Re:Emacs OS on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 2

    Did you try meta-x systemd?

  17. Re:so... on IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're really good at outsourcing and cutting employee benefits. Eventually they'll be down to one employee who's outsourced through 15 different countries and actually pays them to work there. Then they'll be the most profitable company in the world!

  18. I See Where This is Going on IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll drop their famous fish division next and try to make up all their revenue in malt vinegar services.

  19. Re:Wow on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    It's not too bad here, as long as you don't offend our corporate overlords. Especially *looks around nevously* The Mouse. A person does not fuck with The Mouse! What was that? They're here! They know! ... Ah no it was just a raccoon.

  20. Should they? on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 1

    No, they shouldn't. Are they? Yup. About 90% of them won't even be aware it's going on.

  21. Wow on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 0

    Must suck to live in a country that doesn't have free speech. U mad bro?

  22. Re:Missing the point on Be True To Your CS School: LinkedIn Ranks US Schools For Job-Seeking Programmers · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's what I've found, too. I have more luck just seeing if someone will work with a team well, rather than look at their degree status. I'd take a kid with a high school diploma and a few open source projects out on github if I think he'll work on my team well. Unfortunately those are just the sort of people HR usually filters out.

  23. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    If you're a military, you don't ask what it costs. You just write the check and have the taxpayers sign it.

  24. Re:It's the OS, Stupid on Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone · · Score: 2

    17" ipad with a detachable keyboard. You know you want one.

  25. Re:Why is the school involved? on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Be...cause the kid's parents are negligent?